How do people not know to back up now? I mean, I do it (probably not often enough) and the only thing of real value that absolutely could not be replaced without some effort or money is songs. The rest is just random crap. Pictures. Tax returns (maybe I should print those out, just in case). Stuff like that. Nothing that represents irreplaceable effort that would seriously put my work back for years if it was lost.

At least put the important shiat on a couple of jump drives and stick those somewhere safe.

I don't think I want this guy to have a Ph.D. If he's too dumb to back up his data, he should fail.

CSB... I was a computer guy for a college here when a M.S. student had a flash drive failure. She knocked on my door and said her drive wasn't working. I plugged it in, got nothing. Tried a different system, etc... never got a peep out of the thing. We later found that the thing had somehow been subjected to some sort of serious physical impact, such that the flash chip was damaged and some of its connectors bent. Weird. Anyway, yeah... I told her to just get a new flash drive. "No, you don't understand... I need that one!" Story ends predictably... her only copy, no general backups, just a few documents she'd sent to profs and conferences via email. Raw data, etc *completely* gone. Not even on the original lab computers that generated it. About 95% of 3 years of work down the crapper. I told her about how to do backups. Her response after a 15 minute explanation... "So... are there any flash drives that don't fail? That all sounds really hard."

I like anime, and I like porn. It's like chocolate and peanut butter.I don't judge you for your tastes in things getting dicked.I guess it's because there is wierd shiat like tentacles and demon monsters that carry 5 gallon reserve tanks of baby batter.

Tatterdemalian:Bisu: So what's the cheapest way to backup large quantities of data that you don't want transmitted over the internet? I backup in triplicate, and one copy is disconnected from my system, but a fire/tornado/flood/Godzilla could easily wipe out everything at once. The combination of slow internet (relative to drive speeds) and paranoia (not wanting my data physically available to others, even though it's all encrypted) makes online backups less than ideal for me.

Do you get eight hours of sleep a night?

Start the online backup last thing before you go to bed.

/if you don't get eight hours of sleep a night, you should//unless you really intend to kill yourself before you reach 30, it will catch up to you

It would take a year and a half of non-stop uploading with my connection to transfer 10TB. so 4 1/2 years if I do it when I sleep. And like I said I don't like having a cloud service have access to my data. Sure it may be encrypted today, but what if Swordfish is cracked in 5 years? What if quantum computers make non-quantum encryption obsolete? Yes, I know nobody really cares about my midget porn, cat pictures, and personal memoirs, but I still don't want my data out there.